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COMMON(ER) TOUCH—Jor-
dan's Prince Hassan, 15-year.
Old brother of the king, at-
tacks form work like a son of
the soil at Daret Al Khair.
seeteVefititei
Pm" ,Of ,Makino.
A 'Parking Problem.
In the old hare, third step
seciwee from the top as you went
17,40tet the grain room to the tie,
t)iere . was a loose board.. The
here bed been Around a good
deal longer than .1 had, and the
board was probably loose most
of that time, so life on the farm
WAS geared to it, ,I, believe this
j* important. There are people
in thin world who, having' a
loose board, would set in motion
a great program of restoration,
and would fix the board.
Hew much easier it was simp,
ly to make mental note of the
Metter, anti in all goings and
comings to allow for it, Coming
up or going down etairs was not
impeded, and so long.as you eon-
trived to miss that particular spot
affairs proceeded in orderly fa--
shioo and no harm done, We all
knew about the loose board, and
had known all about it for years;
Perhaps you are anticipating
me, An uncle who was neat end
orderly came home after many
years in a far place, and the first
time he used the stairway he no-
ticed that a board was loose. He
got a hammer and a couple of
nails, and he fixed it.
As a result my dear old Grand-
father, passing that way in the
evening to fondle a cow, miscued
at the repaired step, not being
aware that my uncle had fixed.
things, and, fell the length of the.
stairs, ramming his head into
the milk pail and dumping three
quarts of meal inside his shirt.
This was the first time anybody
had ever tripped and fallen bee
cause of this board. The cow, ac-
customed to the gentle approach.
of my Grandfather, became al-
armed when he arrived at 'her.
side in this precipitous fashion,
and climbed up in the manger
and put her head under her
arms, and refused to be consoled,
This necessitated milking her in
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SeMetliing of a horizontal pos)-
'Um Which is dilifieult even with
co-operation, and she was not
co-operating. And, after all this
work, it was disheartening to
find that Grandfather had milk-
ed her with his hat still in the
pail. So, what with this and that,
the evening was strained, and my
uncle promised he would never
fix anything again,
The other ,day I stopped in the
village to see if the merchants
Were trading, and an unhappy
gentleman attracted my ellen'
time lie was holding a parking
tieket in his hand and he said
to me with a forced smile, "I
stop three minutes to spend
eight dollars and your policeman
says 'Welcome!'"
Our town needs parking rules
and regulations the way Athens
needs history, and the hard-times
merchants along the main street
need customers and friends, so I
took the ticket from the man
and said, "Go with fond memor-
ies, sir, and return another time
in confidence — this is a
wretched mistake, our policeman
, is young and ambitious, and he
has just fixed the barn step,"
I remember one time Grand-
father stepped into a now store
to look the stock over, and it
was a lovely store with a good
stock, and the proprietor was
proud, They shook hands and
the proprietor said, "How do you
like it?"
"You won't last a year," said
Grandfather,
"Oh? Why not?"
"Because there's no place out
front to hitch a horse,"
History bore Gramp out; the
store folded up within the year,
Anyway, I talked to the police-
man about this business of pick-
ing on strangers in our midst,
and found the police have an odd
philosophy about the functions
of society. In the first place, it
was clear he had some kind of
feeling that a motorist is by
nature a heihous criminal, whose
presence leads only to "viola-
tions," and that stopping an
automobile in the. village in or-
der to pursue the business for
which the village is set up is per
se suspect. Parking, to him, ap-
pears to be some kind of game
in which he wins or loses ac-
cording to the number of tickets
he can give out.
There is now a "problem."
"You know," X said, "I've seen.
Main Street on a Saturday with
more horses and wagons parked
on it than you have autos park-
ed there now on a Saturday.
There was no problem. Coming
to town was a pleasant event
that everybody looked forward
to. We had more stores then, and
they did good business and made
money, You don't know that be-
cause you aren't old enough.
What would you do if some
farmer came in here now with
a team of horses and parked a
hayrack in front of the cobbler
shop?"
Anyway, I gave the lad some-
thing of a lecture, on the values
-of being nice to people, and how
important it is to have friends
who want to come back. a gave
him the ticket he had given the
man, and he told me I'd have to
pay the 50 cents charge, because
it had been entered in the books
and there was no way to "fix"
it. "How would I know this man
was a stranger?" he said. He
said if I didn't pay the 50 cents
he'd have to go find the man
and bring him in. Besides, he
said, what difference does it
make if the man is a stranger
or a resident if he still parked
with his wheels more than eight
inches from the curb. Yes — I
paid the 50 cents, and I don't
know why,
But I had something of a som-
ber feeling that a nice little
back country town which has
been negotiating its barn steps -
safely for many years has had
a board fixed, and we've just
taken a header.—By John Gould
in the Christian. Science Monitor.
Tobacco. First
Used As Medicine
Parisians are now flocking to
a fascinating exhibition called
"Tobacco in Art, History a n d
Life," which celebrates '400 years
of French addiction to tobacco,,
and 150 years since making and
selling tobacco in France became
a state monopoly.
There is a splendid array of
pipes, ancient and modern,
drawn from more than sixty mu-
seums and private collections
throughout the world.
Nineteenth-century creations
'include pipes with their bowls
shaped like women's legs.
One pipe, as a gesture of irony,
has its bowl modelled on the
head of Queen Victoria, who
frowned on. smoking. No o n e
dared put a pipe to his lips in
her presence.
It was Jean Nicot, when
French ambassador to Portugal,
who introduced tobacco to his
native country. H e forwarded,
under cover of secret dispatches,
a few leaves to Catherine de
Medici, wife of Henry II of
France, as a cure for her head-
aches.
Their magic worked. The new
panacea took Nicot's name, and
eventually was classified as Ni-
cotiana tabacum.
Though it was soon smoked
with delight, early devotees also
sniffed it.
In Paris and London, 300 years
ago there were "Professors of
the Art of Whiffling!' They
ground their tobacco in finely
carved wooden or ivory graters,
then used the powdered leaf as
if it were snuff. They said it was
effective a g a i n s t flatulence,
tooth and stomach aches. •
In Britain today there is a
craze for smoking quaint pipes.
01 d - fashioned churchwarden
pipes may be resurrected if a re-
vived Danish fashion catches, on.
In Denmark, the foureand-a-
half-foot-long soldier pipe, priz-
ed by foreigners as an antique,
is reappearing.
This has a decorated porcelain
bowl, six inches, deep,. and an
inch wide at the month- Fuelled
with specially manufactured to-
bacco, it is regarded by Danes
as an ideal companion for watch-
ing television.
The smoker rests the pipe be-
tween his knees, with the bowl
lying on the floor at his feet,,
and puffs away contentedly with
his eyes an the screen.
His wife or daughter lights the
pipe and keeps it fuelled.
Danish soldiers used to smoke
such pipes, in their barracks --
to steady their nerves.
WHEN PLANES HAD TO
CARRY HORNS. !
According to the new regula-
tions, all airmen in France must
be provided With navigation cer-
tificates and with permits for
their aircraft, Each machine
must carry a visible registered
number, arid must cone to land
when invited to do so by sig-
hale, which are to be arranged
subsequently.
Flights aver cities or Crowd.S
a r e prohibited. No eitploSiVes,
cameras, et radio apparatus may
be carried without speetoal per-
inisSicin. In the near future all
aircraft will be exPetted to carry
three lights —a white a n e in
front, a greets end on the right,
end a red One on the left.
A horn Must be carried for use
le foggy Weather, Aircraft are
expected never to pass within
400 it, of each other. — From
':'.pit-tilts"'' January- 1D12,
Ended. By Guns
chle day last August, Ira Travis.
Sutton,a, mid Walter Lee Han,
eY' sawed t1ro utgwho.
tillieoldbualps onireitihe;
.cell in •the, Natehitoches, La., sail,
and fled to Atlanta, At' almost
exactly the same time., slender,.
blue-eyed Katie Ruth. Gladden.
quit her job irr.Dirming,ham for
another in Atlanta.
In Atlanta; Katie moved in
with her cousin, P...Gladdeni\
and hia,wifeu Mai30,.A cee p 1 a of
weeks latter, on the sidewalk
front al 4h-J'briaddens' apartment
building, Katie met' twi? men.
.01,19 of them, a slim, dark-haired.
man, introduced himself as Joe
Patterson. jr,. .and his friend as
Leo' Hanley, These were Sutton
and. Haney, Sutton told Katie
they were salesmen for a home-
repair firm, and that they lived
in the apartment next door.. •
JustThefere Christmas, the ra-
diant Katie. aceompanied. "Tee
Patterson" to a justice of the
peace to be married, •
The newlyweds Set up . house-
keeping in "Joe's"' apartment.
"They'd come over for dinner
every now and., then," said Mrs„
Gladden later, "and he always
insisted on washing the dishes.
He'd light your cigarettes for
you and everything, just like a
real gentleman."
One eight recently Sutton told
his bride, now two months preg-
nant, that he was wanted by the
.police. She begged him to sur-
render but he and Haney fled;
With ;ears streaming down her
cheeks, Katie knocked at her
cousin's door. "I married some-
body who was in trouble with.
the law," she wept, "I love him
and I tried to get him to give.
up, but he wouldn't"
The next day, after telling the
FBI what had happened, Katie
went home to her parents, Mr.
and Mrs, C. L. ,Gladden, who
live on a Small cotton farm near
Gadsden, Ala, .She made the trip
with another' cousin, Gerald
Jones, and his wife, Linda, in
the gaudy, pink and coral 1956
DeSoto Sutton -had been driving.
when Katie met him.
Katie told her story to her
parents, then decided to go to
RUST' IN PEACE — Looks like
a pair of old burnt-out televi-
sion sets, but it is a scurptui-e
called "Enclosed Space" ex-
hibited' in London.
Leesburg to visit an aunt. As, she
packed, a tall, sandy-haired ETA
agent named W. H. (Bill')) Majlor
stood on al knoll near' the home.
with a .30-caliber carbine under
his. arnr,, keeping the house. ender
surveillance.
When the Joneses,, and Katie
came out, and got into, the car,
in the gloom of a rainy twilight,
Major mistook Jones, for^ Sutton.:
As the car started, the, FBI man
leaped into the road in front of
it arid tried to stop it. MajOr,, who
said later that, he theught he was
being, sunk down, jumped aside
and opened fire,. Twenty-four
slugs tore into the car. Wounded,
Katie screamed: "It's a crazy
=An and he's got a shotgun. Keep
going."
A short distance dawn the road,
Jones. careened to a, halt, Not
until he had caught up with the
car did Major realize his fatal
mistake. Katie, sleet six tunes,
was dead. Mrs,. Jones had suf-
fered a slight -wound in the
thigh.
Later, Katie's father pressed
a first-degree murder charge
againtt Major, arid the FBI agent
was released On $3,000 bond.
pending grand-juty 'actioe. A
eeethet of 'three small children
and an FBI' man .for Six .years,
Major was obviously stunned, He
told authorities he thought he
heard shots; from the car, per-
haps a backfire, but a relative of
Katie Who had Witnessed the
shooting, Mrs. 3,C. Gladden, said
she heard no such sound. TWO
days aftet Katie was butted, Ira
Sutton and Haney: Were .captured
by PEI' agents as they were driv-
ing a Stbleti car on an Atlanta
eXpresSWay.
Net a shot was fired,
ISSUE 11' 1962
Ross is still in the Sick Chil-
dren's Hospital but I imagine he'
will be out in a day or two. Joy
has been staying at Dee's place
so she could see Ross every day
from three to six-thirty. In be-
tween she was visiting the den-
tist and finally came down. with
an awful cold so at the week-end
she and Cedric went home and
Bob came along to keep Ross
company during visiting hours
over the week-end.
And we have been busy too.
Tuesday was our wedding anni-
versary. Besides cards and gpod
wishes we got a phone call from
Montreal — from former neigh-
bours whose anniversary was the
same as our own. Generally we
get together btit J — now has a
government job and 'was leaving
by air next day on a spedial as-
signment in' Britain. ,So that was
that. Next day two other, friends
dropped in to spend the day with
us so we 'celebrated all over
again. We were so glad to see
them as they, too, expect to be on
the' move in a few weeks.
Thursday I got a bit :of work
done on my Tweedsmnir history.
In the middle of that: fon., of our
W.A.. members came along and
wanted some sewing doneifor•the
church. That:same night Partner
was^ "baby-sitting" and had the
pleasure of watching `a"hockey
game on TV" Whibh *ended-in a
two-all tie for Tdrontie an:di Bos-
ton., Ever since. I , can remember
the Leafs. and Bruins h .we• al-
ways had a, battle royal hr every
game they played'.., There Must
be' a psychological :reason for' it.
We can understand the' LeafS; las-
ing to, Canadieriebut to the:lowly
Betains . that's; anothee• story..
Iteeve-ver; we 'had 'Bea tasey"'
to watch afterwards so) We, did
get some pleasure from our TV'
viewing;
Friday` . Friday was
One of those days you know.
the phone startea iingibmg at
eight-thirty fin the morning and
there was, one call effeE VI:nether
for the rest, of the day. 'We also
had a couple of friends drop in
for afternoon „tea and,before we
had finished supper a rating
Mother canna to let off' steareo
about how awful . it was eto be
shut in with two children all.day,..
long! During.the evening neigh
bout Bill came along for a visit.'
So now, who says' life' IS- thin its
sub-divisidil?
Saturday morning, inbetWeen
chores, I Was ott the' phone chas
hig a few leads la local. history'.,
After luhch I thought l•
lie down just for .a little while
— but 'slept until three. o'cloaki
My eyes :vete still tired gild nib
voice had alitiost given but after
a busy but most enjoyable week;
Eut COLD ?
lute leieW zero every, thti oting
except one. 1 didn't go out at all
but Partner teak Taffy for a
Short walk every day: Saturday
night I had quite a time doing
My Weekly accounts because With
so huh's, counter-attractions I
had Omitted Se-Vet-Ai daily entries
and found friygelf five doltait
Short.
Did I hear someone say — "But
why keep accounts? I couldn't
be bothered." Well, I agree it is
a bit of a chore but believe me
it is well worthwhile. However,
our accounting is not too rigid as
we don't attempt to keep a bud-
get. We spend according to what
we can afford and by keeping
track Of where the money goes
we 'know pretty well what we
can allow for extras. At the end
of the year we know exactly
what it has cost to heat the
house, run the car pay taxes,
keep food on the table and so on.
The difference between income
and expenditure during any cur-
rent year is our guide to what we
can allow for home improve-
ments the ensuing year, The fact
that we don't budget doesn't
mean we are against it. It is
wonderful for those who can do
it, But we haven't enough pro-
tection to make it work. Natur-
ally we have hospital insurance
but we are not eligible for P.S.I.
which means our medical ex-
penses could be. ;$I0 or they
might be $500. If they run 'high
that means less money available
.for home improvements. Heat,,
food' and cIOthing has to' be pro-
vided for ITO) matterewhat„ but a
paint job cart always wait an-
other yeare,
I am, telling you this so that
anyone^ who doesn't keep ac-
counts May be' tempted' to do so.
They don't need to be complica-
ted. Just get a three-column ac-.
count book andel:take ,pp, a ,see 7
tem to suit equeseif. Summarize
your expenditute Under ipecifid -
headings each week, then you
ran get. your total: at the end of
the year with ree_ry little. trouble.
I lust use at scratch pad,for, every
day 12'54 end theraat the end of,,
the week copy ealr ddv n 'into
My account book under 'the, 'pro
peer'
hot it!'s,fee bore.'
Ind saves. marry : an argument:.
yOu seei in Mick andi
white` you thay not realize JetiVe
much you spend at the beatitike'
parlor, OF; if you smoke, en cig,-
amttes -- or Father on tobacco.-
Helieve me, start ,keeping
counts and,„yon'll,get.quite a„ few
surprises — both kinds, goCeand
bad too!
+Wlry can't life's pr~diife"rds taw
When We're eighteen IceOW“
'7f you doit't eat yam! cereal
lion *Ont grow up to be a bit
iiith like Daddy."'
Something The
ShoOdn't Forget!,
Whatever the .Administration.
reemrniends and Congress tie,
eldest, •to do about. tariffs and
track, with their eyes on the ex-
panidiaeg. Furopeart Too no! n
Coramemity, they had better not,
lose' sight of our trade with,
cCoani e $d e. oN40. toot
equall
igni ge ccoaunnatcli'ay.
as A U.S, trading partner,
This is one of the reasons, no.
doubt, that five U.S, cabinet see,
retaria met in Ottawa (recently)
with four Canadian cabinet rain-.
iterse ''N. two countries in world •
history have ever had the same
flow of goods across their eorn-
bmyon4 bAordFer,ar"cii,;.waersoanre pir•eenissiiied
aril.-
cer for the Canadian embassy .
"I don't think it is gene.rolly
realized that trade with Canada
has been greater than U.S. trade
with the six countries that form-
ed the Common Market. It is
only with the proposed entry
of Great Britain that the Com-
mon Market Group equals the
sum total of Canadian trade with
the United States. Canada is also
a larger market for U.S.. goods
than all 20 countries of Latin
America put together."
Canada is a better customer
for U.S, goods than all 20 na-
tions of. Latin America, although
overall U.S. trade with Latin
America is slightly higher than
that with. Canada, Over 50 per
cent of Canada's exports go to
the .United .States, and over 65
per cent of Canada's imports are
from the United States.
Canada's half - billion dollar
deficit in trade with the United
States is a problem which must
be correlated. with such regional
complaints as those in the North-
west against Canadian lumber'
imports. The President asked- for ,
authority to`• make across-the-
board changes in tariffs,' rather
than to negotiate changes .item-
by-item as under the existing re-
ciprocal trade act. We must be
informed what effect such au-
thority might have, not only on
our ,regional' indu;trie's such as
lumber, but On U.SeCanada^erade
relations as a whole.—The (Port-
land) Oregonian.
Modern Etiquette
By Anne Ashley
Q. When a man is "invited /7
a woman to escort her to a
dance, banquet, or some such
affair, is it proper always for
him to bring her a corsage?
A. Only if the affair is 'to be
a formal one, and he knows she
is wearing an evening dress,
Q. Is it considered' polite to
refuse a cigarette someone has
offered you, if you prefer your
own brand?
A, Yes; but refuse graciously,
saying, "Thank you, but 1 have
some."
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SWINGING -- Using the movie props for her latest film,
"The Children's Hour," actress Shirley MacLaine entertains
herself with a swinging session near Hollywood,